Post by @cari@sunny.garden

2026-04-17 17:02 UTC

:boost_ok: Writers, where do you go to find community, make friends, and otherwise connect with other writers? I&#39;ve mentioned before that one of the reasons I fell out of writing for so long is that I lost touch with the writer friends I had in my twenties. It was nice to have spaces where we could connect over this shared interest and, y&#39;know, share or brainstorm or commiserate or whatever else. (We were all in art school at the time, so there was plenty of the commiserating, for sure.) In the absence of a shared physical context (office, school, etc.), I&#39;m not sure where the best place might be to start looking for new community! Do you make those connections here? Are there Discord/IRC/Matrix servers? Forums or subreddits? I&#39;m curious to know where other people are finding this. Bonus points for spaces that aren&#39;t all or mostly focused on fantasy writing--that&#39;s most of what I&#39;m finding, and it&#39;s not my preferred genre, so I&#39;m at even more of a loss. #writing #writingCommunity

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@dickrubin716@bookstodon.com 2026-04-17 19:18

@cari@sunny.garden Not sure if you’re still taking friendship applications, hi 👋. I’ve developed my connections to the #writingcommunity strictly online, now here and once upon a time on Twitter. I write contemporary fiction, and haven’t found anyone else yet in the fediverse. Not saying they don’t exist, just that I haven’t found them. What are you working on?

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@lisagetspolitik@union.place 2026-04-20 14:52

@cari@sunny.garden I reached out to a friend who is in the publishing industry and worked for a time as a literary agent and she gave me the following advice to pass along: it depends on the genre but there are a lot of subreddits. https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/w6zn0m/online_writing_groups/ This one links to other recommend online groups as well as NAMO, which always has a bunch of helpful links to it. That poster is a fantasy author, fyi, so grain of salt. There is also this Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/WritersGroup/

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